12/9/2019

MEDIA/PARDONS/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Roger Stone’s supporters are making a pardon pitch everywhere President Donald Trump looks: Fox News, InfoWars, Twitter, even the White House driveway. Michael Flynn abruptly hired a bombastic lawyer who spouts Trump-friendly theories about FBI duplicity that are widely seen as a pardon play. In any other administration, at any other time, it would be shocking to consider the possibility that three men with such deep personal ties to the president might get their legal troubles expunged in an election year — not to mention by a president facing impeachment. In any other administration, at any other time, it would be shocking to consider the possibility that three men with such deep personal ties to the president might get their legal troubles expunged in an election year — not to mention by a president facing impeachment. But this is not any other administration.”

Darren Samuelsohn and Meridith McGraw, “Possible pardons loom for former Trump aides,” Politico, December 9, 2019 5:03 am